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Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

A full route to Microsoft's AZ-900: the current skills outline, lab access without surprise bills, cloud concepts, core Azure services, identity, governance and pricing, timed practice, exam day and what to study next.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900), and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

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Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

Starting Microsoft Azure certification with AZ-900: cloud concepts, core Azure services, identity and governance, pricing and a short study plan with sandbox labs.

  1. Deciding whether AZ-900 is the right first cloud exam
  2. Current AZ-900 skills outline and exam rules check
  3. Microsoft Learn profile and certification dashboard
  4. Choosing a safe practice environment for Azure labs
  5. Budget alert and spending guardrails on the lab subscription
  6. Baseline score from the free practice assessment
  7. Dated six-week AZ-900 study plan
  8. Study notes organised by the three skill areas
  9. Two protected study blocks every week
  10. Daily ten-question practice set
  11. Wrong-answer log and weekly review
  12. Spaced flashcards for Azure service names
  13. Monthly timed practice assessment and score tracking
  14. Weekly sandbox lab session
  15. Monthly lab subscription clean-up
  16. Weekly check-in with a study partner
  17. Cloud deployment models and the shared responsibility model
  18. Consumption pricing, CapEx and OpEx
  19. IaaS, PaaS and SaaS with real examples
  20. High availability, scalability and the other cloud benefits
  21. Regions, availability zones and region pairs
  22. Subscriptions, resource groups and management groups in practice
  23. Azure compute choices from virtual machines to Functions
  24. Azure networking basics for AZ-900
  25. Storage accounts, redundancy options and access tiers
  26. Microsoft Entra ID, MFA and role-based access control
  27. Zero Trust, defence in depth and Defender for Cloud
  28. Governance with Azure Policy, resource locks and tags
  29. Pricing calculator and TCO estimate for a sample workload
  30. Tools for managing and deploying Azure resources
  31. Monitoring with Advisor, Service Health and Azure Monitor
  32. Migration and data movement options
  33. Choosing a course or practice test to pay for
  34. Free voucher and discount options check
  35. Online proctored or test centre decision
  36. Exam accommodations and language options
  37. Readiness decision before booking
  38. Booking the AZ-900 exam
  39. Full mock exam in the final week
  40. Online exam room and check-in rehearsal
  41. Exam day plan and result review
  42. Claiming the badge and updating your CV and profiles
  43. AZ-900 alongside a degree or college course
  44. AZ-900 for sales, finance and project roles
  45. AZ-900 as a first step into IT from another career
  46. Fitting AZ-900 around work and caring duties
  47. Retake plan after a failed attempt
  48. Running an AZ-900 study cohort for colleagues
  49. One-page Azure proposal for a real problem
  50. Choosing what to study after AZ-900

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Deciding whether AZ-900 is the right first cloud exam

AZ-900 suits people who need to talk about cloud and Azure with confidence, but an engineer already running Azure workloads might go straight to AZ-104, and someone whose employer runs on another cloud may get more from that provider's entry exam. An evening comparing your role, your employer's platform and the exam's scope tells you whether the next six weeks belong here.

First tasks

  • List the cloud platforms used at your workplace, course or target employers
  • Read the AZ-900 exam page on Microsoft Learn end to end
  • Score yourself one to five against each skill area in the outline
  • Write down whether you are sitting AZ-900 and why

Current AZ-900 skills outline and exam rules check

Microsoft revises the AZ-900 study guide every so often, renaming services and moving topics between skill areas, so a video course recorded two years ago can teach Azure Active Directory when the exam now says Microsoft Entra ID. An hour with the official study guide before buying anything keeps you studying the exam that is live, not the one that was retired.

First tasks

  • Download the current AZ-900 study guide from Microsoft Learn
  • Copy the three skill areas and their sub-topics into your notes
  • Write down the price, retake policy and languages with today's date
  • Recheck the study guide for outline changes @recurring(monthly:25)

Microsoft Learn profile and certification dashboard

Your Microsoft Learn profile is where learning path progress, practice assessment history, the exam booking and the final credential all live, and the name on it has to match the photo ID you show the proctor. Setting it up properly with the right sign-in, before any study, avoids the common mess of progress spread across a work and a personal account.

First tasks

  • Choose the Microsoft account you will keep for certification
  • Set the profile name to match your passport or national ID exactly
  • Open the certification profile and confirm it links to that account
  • Save the AZ-900 learning paths into a Learn collection

Make it yours.

Install Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900), then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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